At 1:40 PM -0700 on 7/11/99, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Rob Cozens : As I review the various license provisions and follow the
>accompanying discussion, it seems to me there is one basic issue left
>unaddressed: What legal entity will issue the OC license? A group of
>individual contributors, a non-profit corporation, or ??.
>
>Alain : What did the Perl folk do?
I think all of Perl is licences by one person, who's name I can not
remember at the moment.
>
>Alain : Who issues licences in the other open source schemes?
Most of the time, one person or organization.
>
>Alain : If it becomes necessary to formalize our group as a legal
>entity, then so be it!
>
>Alain : Which brings up another issue. It may cost some money to
>incorporate ourselves, for example. Other expenditures will eventually
>become necessary. Hence the necessity for OODL to accumulate some
>capital. So here is what I suggest: That OODL reserve for itself the
>right to resale OC on CDROM and such. Whether this right-to-resale
>would be EXCLUSIVE to OODL is a separate issue.
I certainly think the organization ought to be able to cover its expenses.
PS: OODL is the mailing list... We need a name for the organization.
